Are you going to cancel Sprint EVDO because of 5GB cap?

MichiganTim · EVDO Heavy User Joined: 08 Apr 2007 Posts: 111

Yeah you are probably right peter, But on the other hand changing a contract from unlimted to limited, is a pretty big change. And that just might be enough to piss someone of even if they don't use it alot. Changing the contract like that is just wrong. i thought it was wrong when verizon was doing, comcast, and now sprint. I was proud that sprint turned there heads when the others were doing it, i figuredd that they were not going to do it since everyone else was doing it. To be diffrent and to scoop up market share. Sprint just gave the shaft to there loyal customers. Now I think we should all band togeather and give sprint the shaft.

If they don't have customers, they will not generate revenue, and there s no point to have evdo towers/wimax. SPRINT YOU ARE WRONG! LIEING,CHEATING BxTARDS
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waynefoutz · EVDO Junkie Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 297

MichiganTim · EVDO Heavy User Joined: 08 Apr 2007 Posts: 111

Seems to me that the BroadBand customers have payed for the technology and infrastructure to roll out there sprint tv. If sprint can give users to stream tv over there cell phones. It seems to me that the Broadband users should have the same right with out a Bandwidth Cap. Sprint very nice of you to give the Shaft to your broadband customers in favor of Sprint TV. Kinda funny how the cap is in place right before they are luanching there new Sprint TV. I hope sprint Falls flate on there face and files Bankruptcy! Kinda funny I was actually entertaining the thought of buying stock in sprint because of there Wimax.
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Kane3162 · EVDO User Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Posts: 64

* 10-25GB
* primary
* fixed location
* Cable/DSL or other 'mainstream' internet access is NOT available
* min 1/max 8
* games/news/pictures/streaming video from family in Iraq
* 16hours
* KR1

ShinLupinSan · EVDO User Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 32

Well I don't exactly have a choice. I used 32GB last month. My connection is used for online gaming, and downloading content through Xbox Live, I-tunes, etc....so all it will take is a few nights of gaming, a couple of new game trailers, demos, XBL Arcade games on the Marketplace, and a few tv show downloads (which I can only get online since cable is unavailable in my area) and I'll be in violation of the 5GB limit...even though it will all be legally downloaded content! It's really nice to know that Sprint suddenly doesn't value me as a consumer anymore....

Droford · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 08 Aug 2007 Posts: 22

* My last 3 months have averaged about 8 GB according to the data available on their website when viewing previous bills
* Primary and only
* Fixed 99.9% of the time. Ive had it 10 months and aside from taking my laptop to NY last week I havent used the EVDO anywhere else other than home
* No other broadband available, its this or 19.2 kbps dialup
* I run ICS on a 2 computers and a laptop plus my Wii is hooked up.
* Mostly message boards, news, some youtube and some wii gaming/downloading
* I leave it on 24/7 but I probably only use it like 5 or 6 hours
* The 595u doesnt work with a router

Fox McCloud · EVDO Junkie Joined: 02 Dec 2006 Posts: 618

I'm yet another "not yet"; I won't cancel, as this is the only thing I have, therefore, I'll stick it out until I get terminated....

Either way:

Kane3162 · EVDO User Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Posts: 64

i honestly cannot believe this hasn't received more post's/votes... and OP can you modify the poll to include "Not At the Moment" or something to that effect...

and i know what you mean... i live out in southern san antonio with no DSL/Broadband...

huge mistake... Sprint... HUGE

RVTraveler

Definitely canceling. Will decide between Verizon for better national coverage, or Alltel for no limits.

I am a fulltime RVer traveling around the country.

My average usage is 3-5 gig per month. However, I may be in roaming areas for weeks at a time, and I would quickly exhaust the new 300 mb per month roaming limit. I do not want to have to worry and monitor all the time.

EVDO is my primary internet connection.

I use it while traveling. My retirement lifestyle is continuous travel.

The only other internet access available to me is that some campgrounds have WiFi. It is often slow, intermittent and frustrating.

Only one person uses the connection.

Uses: Web surfing, email, business and bill pay, some internet streaming radio, internet data backup using Mozy (a competitor to Carbonite.com)

Connection is active 12-16 hours a day. Actively used 3-6 hours a day.

No router is used.

manganos · Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 1:45 pm Post subject:

I already called and cancelled. I don't know how many gig I used but I'm not going to even worry about giving sprint another chance.

tech721 · EVDO User Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 37

i use over 55 gigs using phone as modem romaing evdo and 1x i download everyday and pretty much i wont be affected about the cap so im good lol

yonnie · EVDO Fledgling Joined: 06 May 2008 Posts: 14

You posters honestly believe you won't be affected? Who was that Nazi propaganda minister that was quoted for saying if you tell a lie often enough it will be believed as truth? Well that is what the 1% user is, it's a lie. If they are using old data bases, then it could be slightly true, because the old air-cards at 12kbs couldn't download crap if you left them on all year, and that's still what many users have. But that's not true with the evdo revA, which under good conditions can do 3mbs.
At 165mb limit per day (so you won't go over the 5gb/mo) have any of you really thought about how insignificant that is? A typical software patch will eat that in minutes, you'll have to turn off automatic updates and put up with security alerts and put your computer security at risk.

This also means you won't be able to share engineering plans, download schematics or update machines you may have to service, which is usually the point for having an evdo modem in the first place. And the reason you flew 3,000 miles to fix.

If your into movies, sorry pal, hope you can ration at one per mo., cause one movie is going to eat your monthly cap. (1 dvd is 4.7gb)

for the little old ladies sharing photos of the grandkids, well that's a lot of photos, big family? That's about all the 5gb cap is good for, small photos and emails. Business use, for rural soho, forget it! LOL

To stay under the 5gb cap means you will have to consciously work at it. You're going to have to write down everything you do and add it up....which is nuts! Most apps don't even give you this data easily, and many users wouldn't even know where to look to find it.

No, this 5gb cap is totally about money! They do this crap all the time, always changing the rates and the times they charge you for your minutes and whatever else they can nickel/dime us for. Right now they're colluding with each other so they can slam us for overages and make a fortune off us. Oh you don't believe me? Well who wanted to believe about Enron back in '01? When people were yelling about them manipulating the energy market, but government kept saying they weren't? $4/gal of gas? Who would have believed that a year ago? Of course not, they're our friends, they're here to help us! You got that right, they're here solely to help our money out of our pockets and into theirs and congress too. After that goes on for awhile, then the government might step in and tell them they're naughty boys and slap them with a minor fine and ask for their cut. It's just racketeering, get used to it. After all, has Exxon paid for the Valdez yet? Oh, what's that got to do with the phone bill and the 5gb cap? It's what congress and our government will do about the problem, NOTHING!

waynefoutz · EVDO Junkie Joined: 31 Mar 2008 Posts: 297

I'm a trucker, constantly moving. Sprint is the 3rd carrier I've been with, the 5 gig cap follows me wherever I go. Starting July 13th, I'll start limiting my internet usage, because I can't afford to be without it. I'm pretty optimistic that this is a soft cap like AT&T imposed, with little enforcement. I'll keep an eye on the forums, I figure around September or mid October we'll start seeing how Sprint is dealing with the rulebreakers. At most, I'm using 20 gigs a month, because I'm a hulu.com junkie (streaming tv shows.) I just purchased a program called Replay Media Catcher, which snags streaming video off of websites like hulu.com and saves the flv files to your hard drive. I'll just log on to a hotspot once a week and save about 10 hours of hulu videos to my hard drive, until we see if this is going to blow over or not.
When I was at AT&T, they imposed a 5 gig cap, we got the same song and dance, and wildly varying statements from AT&T costumer service reps, and in the end, we learned there was little or no enforcement. I really think and hope that's what's going on here. We'll see. In the meantime, I'll keep it toned down, because If I leave, I need it to be on my own terms. I only get home to get my mail once a month, and I can't afford an interruption of services. Otherwise, I'd happily be the canary in the coal mine. But as it stands I'll let someone else be the guinea pig. If I log on in late September and I see posts saying "Sprint cancelled my account," then I know it's time to order either an alltel or an AT&T broadband card, so it's waiting for me when I get home, and set up about 20 bittorrent seeds so I can get my cancellation notice too.

Peterfield · EVDO Heavy User Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 132

There's no great conspiracy. Equating this to $4 gas is funny. Truth is we are now paying for generations of no new refineries or drilling in the US due to environmental lobbying. Now we are getting what we asked for, being totally dependent on exports for oil and gas. The difference now is other countries are developing and compete for oil, hence new supply and demand scenarios. With EVDO, the reason only a few have posted here about it is because the vast majority will never see 5 GB per month of use. The company's view of normal use is 180 degrees opposite of the super users running servers, downloading movies, streaming 24/7, etc. The difference is they own the company so their view of "normal" will prevail. If a very small percentage of users take up "abnormal" bandwidth, in their view, it makes total economic sense to throttle that use and make room for their "normal" users, thereby saving themselves extensive upgrade costs to keep up with demand. Pure supply and demand economics, which is how successful companies run their businesses.